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Back to corned beef & frozen peas for Brash

Zetetic — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:57:37 +0000

Turia's learning the price of loyalty. Her Whanau Ora is getting cuts. Key knows she'll roll over and vote for any budget to keep her seat in the limo. Hide's 2025 Taskforce is for the chop too. Key says it's not worth the money. Never was. 300K down the drain. Brash off the gravy train; back to corned beef and peas. Bet Key's silly cycleway won't be cut.

Tourism: revenue flat, employment down

Marty G — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:00:46 +0000

I'm confused by the up beat coverage of the tourism figures released on Wednesday. Have people actually read the numbers? Tourism is in decline. Employment and revenue are still going down, and the next time oil prices go through the roof, the situation will get worse. No cycleway will change that.

Where is National’s economic plan?

Marty G — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:20:08 +0000

It became increasingly clear this year that National's longer-term economic plan, such as they had one, could be summed up as â€œtax cuts and miningâ€. With mining in national parks now out of the picture, just what is National's plan to grow the economy and lift our wages to Australian levels?

No progress on Key memorial cycleway

Marty G — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:30:06 +0000

I love that John Key is so desperate to show some progress on his memorial cycleway that he's even going along to the opening of cycleways that aren't funded with its money. On Sunday he showed up at the opening of a cycleway in Oamaru. The cycleway was funded by the council and NZTA. The recession has been over for a year - not a single job has been created, no cycleway built.

Spin cycle

Marty G — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:00:34 +0000

Normally, $9 million in government spending is such a puny amount it’s not worth covering but as Key has nailed his crediblity to the success of his cycleways, let’s crunch some numbers. These seven tracks will supposedly cost $9 million to build and create 280 jobs (only 140 in the near future). Other details, including ...

Plenty of pixie dust for the cycleway

Eddie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:11:41 +0000

John Key says there are “no pixies printing cash” to help Kiwis who’ve lost their jobs under his government’s watch. Funny, because there’s plenty of pixie dust for Key’s cycleway. Pixie dust is in no short supply to subsidise Key’s rich mates who want to send their kids to elitist private schools. And there’s buckets ...

Bad Request

The Standard — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:22:14 +0000

A reader writes: This cracked me up. When I went to look at the press release about John Key’s cycleway, this is what I got. Must be a not so subtle sign from Bill!

English kicks cycleway to touch

all_your_base — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:41:20 +0000

While John Key’s been bouncing from cloud to cloud, Bill English has been grinding away in the back room. He’s finally done the the numbers on Key’s cycleway, announcing today that: We won’t be spending $50 million on it this year or next year or the year after. With one swift stroke, he’s effectively killed ...

Pinch me

Guest post — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:54:05 +0000

A cyclist and Standard reader writes: Pinch me. Maybe I’ll wake up in a world where a cycleway isn’t the government’s flagship idea for getting us out of the recession. You’ve got three more years of this mate.

The tiniest rolling maul in the world

all_your_base — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:08:42 +0000

So the pressure is building for National to get specific about it’s plans for fighting the recession. Therese Arseneau complained on Q+A today that Key has “no action plan”. Even Phil O’Reilly from Business New Zealand seemed to agree there wasn’t a clear plan. After all the money spent on National’s ‘Jobs Summit’ the extent ...

Cycleway updates on Campbell Live

all_your_base — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:11:31 +0000

Another reason to watch Campbell Live: cycleway updates. John Campbell announced last night he’d be doing regular (nightly?) updates on the number of jobs created by the cycleway and how many kilometers of it have been built. The top to bottom national cycleway is one of Key’s highest profile initiatives for fighting the conomic downturn ...